Ibrahim al-Asiri

Ibrahim al-Asiri (18 April 1982-2017) was a Saudi jihadist who was the chief bomb maker for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Biography
Ibrahim al-Asiri was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1982, and he was imprisoned by the government while attempting to travel to Iraq to join the insurgency against the United States during the Iraq War. His brother Abdullah al-Asiri carried out a suicide bombing in Jeddah on 27 August 2009, while Ibrahim became the main explosives expert. He was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2017, and his death was confirmed on 10 October 2019.